I'm on the road often, speaking about topics related to data science in academia. I’m interested in speaking opportunities, please reach out about your event and we can discuss topics for discussion.
Software impacts virtually all areas of research but has been a heavily undervalued contribution. Over the past decade alone, the research software landscape has changed dramatically. It is now substantially easier to start new …
I gave a talk on Open Source Ecosystems (OSEs) at the Open Innovation for Earth Observation Programmes workshop organized by ESA and NASA in Frascati. In this talk, I describe how The rOpenSci Project began as a small club (using …
Software is crucial to science and scholarship, offering leverage in improving individual research and collaboration within a scientific field. Good research software can have considerable science impacts but the research software …
This was a talk at the R in Medicine conference held virtually August 27-30, 2020. I gave a short lightning talk on using the holepunch package to create small reproducible examples in medical research.
Researchers rarely cite software they use as part of their research. As a result, research software and the time spent developing it have become invisible scholarly contributions. This lack of visibility reduces the incentives …
This was an invited talk at Rstudio::Conf in 2019 where I spoke about using R package structures to create “research compendia”. I also introduced the holepunch R package which was an early work in progress at that …
